BILLINGS, Mont. — A 53-year-old Illinois man who fell to his death in Yellowstone National Park last year was looking for a supposed hidden cache of gold and jewels that has inspired thousands to hunt in vain across remote corners of the Western U.S., according to a report by park authorities. Billings, Montana, news station KULR-TV reports that Jeff Murphy of Batavia, Illinois, was looking for the treasure that antiquities dealer and author Forrest Fenn said he stashed somewhere in the Rocky Mountains several years ago. (Snip) Murphy is one of at least several people who have died while looking

Comments:These people have no idea how risky it is to wander into remote areas by themselves.

The laws of physics will be strictly enforced. Many folks live too much of the time in a flat, paved world with heated buildings nearby and guardrails around most hazards.I have spent a great deal of time in Wyoming and Yellowstone country. In the open wilderness, there are many, many hazards of terrain, weather and water which unwary city dwellers seem to often handle fairly poorly.

It is a shame he fell, but those seeking treasure in the wilderness need to be quite aware of the omnipresent natural dangers.

My short reading of the poem seems to indicate it is more likely in NM or southern CO than WY, but I consider it a fool´s errand and have spent only a few minutes reading and pondering the poem, have no intent to seek the treasure.

Good luck all, be careful, the natural world is unforgiving and uncaring. Something as simple as falling into the water and getting wet far afield without the right gear and skills can be easily fatal, even in summer.

Gold Fever: I had it once. I picked up a trail of stolen gold in New Mexico and spent a small fortune searching for it. The story of my lost treasure is real- at least I proved that. And I got - I believe - pretty close to finding it. But, I woke up after 15 years of off and on looking and investing, which was getting worse and came to the conclusion, this was going to ruin my family, our retirement and was likely to never materialize in the find. I tossed all my camping, exploring and finding stuff in a garage sale and quit it. The quest will consume your soul. All I have left are the old maps...which I also paid a large sum of money for. Nothing but memories now I and got to see some absolutely beautiful God´s country. But, if you ever catch that gold Fever, you had better watch out.

A candid photo of former Vice President Joe Biden has been shared more than 100,000 times as the former running mate of President Obama considers his own presidential run. The photo was taken by Paul Equale, who posted it on Facebook on Friday afternoon. The photo is tagged at an AMC movie theater in the Georgetown nieghborhood of Washington, D.C. "Joe Biden took his granddaughter to the movies in Georgetown last night," Equale wrote. "On his way out he stopped to speak w/ a homeless man. A bystander took this candid shot. Character is about what you do when no

Tensions between Whole Foods Market and some of the most important brands it sells in its stores will come to a head on March 19, when they will congregate for a recently announced summit, sources familiar with the situation tell CNBC. The grocer notified certain vendors about the meeting by email last Saturday. It is set to reassure the brands of relations after Whole Foods´ sale to Amazon. It comes after a rocky few months for the grocer, which has been trying to shift from a local orientation to a national one, without sacrificing the selection and relations that set

FORT WORTH, Texas - Maybe it was a ripple. The blue wave many thought could hit Texas this primary election clearly didn´t materialize, but Democrats did turn out to vote, drawing their largest turnout in a non-presidential primary - more than 1 million voters - in decades. (Snip) Many Republicans posted on social media that they were busy working during early voting, but would show up at the polls on Election Day. And they did - in mass. By the time the polls closed, Republicans had cast a total of 1.5 million votes, nearly 700,000 of those on Election Day

You must always check the date on news stories popping up on Facebook. It’s embarrassing to register shock — James Garner dead? Oh no! — only to be informed that he passed away in 2014. So a week ago, when I noticed a CNN report headlined “Nation of Islam leader Farrakhan delivers anti-Semitic speech,” the first thing I did was see whether he delivered the speech in 2012 or 2002. I mean, talk about an evergreen headline, right? Feb. 25, 2018. Nation of Islam Saviours’ Day. In Chicago. Prompting me to then wonder if the local papers covered it. Nope.

An illegal immigrant charged with vehicular homicide in a fiery crash on a Colorado interstate bonded out of jail Saturday, a week after the deadly hit-and-run incident, despite being wanted by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Ivan Zamarripa-Castaneda, 26, allegedly fled the scene of the accident on Interstate 70 involving a tractor-trailer that caught on fire last week, leaving the driver to die, according to the Denver Police Department. (Snip) "The Denver Sheriff Department will not honor civil detainers as it is considered unconstitutional," the agency said in a statement. ICE officials told Fox News last week they detain up

Sen. Elizabeth Warren says she isn´t running for president in 2020. "I am not running for president in 2020," Warren told CNN´s Jim Acosta on Saturday. Warren, a Massachusetts Democrat and staunch critic of President Donald Trump, made the statement in an interview for CNN´s "State of the Union," scheduled to air at 9 a.m., ET, on Sunday. The lawmaker said the same thing to Chuck Todd of NBC News in an interview for "Meet the Press" when pressed about her Senate re-election campaign and her pledge to fulfill her six-year term. "For the people of Massachusetts, and for the

WASHINGTON — Bernie Sanders is back in the Senate minority. Hillary Clinton is selling books and playing with grandchildren. And the Democratic Party is still navigating the fallout from their bitter 2016 presidential nominating fight. The latest reminder came this week as party leaders failed to agree on how to reduce the influence of so-called "superdelegates" in picking Democrats´ next White House nominee. That class of party leaders — Democratic National Committee members, elected officials and others — overwhelmingly favored Clinton two years ago, inflaming Sanders backers who accused Democratic power players of stacking the deck. Democratic national Chairman Tom

The February jobs report is out and it’s a huge beat. In February, nonfarm payrolls grew by 313,000 and the unemployment rate held steady at 4.1%, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Over the last three months, job gains have now averaged 242,000 per month. February’s payrolls gain was the largest since July 2016. February marks the fifth-straight month the unemployment rate has been at 4.1%, which is the lowest level since December 2000. Economists had expected the report to show nonfarm payrolls grew by 205,000 during the second month of the year with the unemployment rate falling to 4%.

A driver in New Jersey made a fatal mistake when he ignored a road closed barricade Thursday morning and drove on, only to run over live electrical wires downed by this week´s nor´easter storm. As 6ABC in Philly reports, the driver´s SUV erupted into flames in on Summit Avenue and Route 208 in Franklin Lakes just before 9 a.m., as the vehicle hit those live wires. In fact, the inferno was so bad, the driver had not been positively identified as of last reports. Fire totally gutted the vehicle, and the driver was pronounced dead at the scene. The investigation

A panel on MSNBC cheered the imminent demise of “old, kind of crusty” conservatives who support the Second Amendment and prevent young people from enacting gun control measures. Sunday on “AM Joy,” news anchor Joy Reid described conservatism as a “creepy, weird worldview” that “young people, who are a big, big cohort of the American population, do not share.” She asked her panel: “At some point, does the conservative media run out of viewers?” Kurt Bardella, a columnist for the Huffington Post, responded that there is “credence to the idea” that old conservatives, “through the process of evolution,” will “thankfully

Attorney General Jeff Sessions and the Trump administration are going about the sanctuary city issue in the right way. The very idea of so-called sanctuary cities is offensive to a lot of law-abiding Americans. Taking action against the liberal politicians who want to give safe harbor to illegal immigrants is a slow, easy pitch from the Democrats, and Republicans everywhere should take advantage. (Snip) Open-border radicals in California and other liberal strongholds must be held accountable. Of course, liberals would have you believe that they are only interested in protecting the poor, the oppressed and the hardworking who have nowhere

Job creation saw another powerful month in February, with companies adding 235,000 positions, ADP and Moody´s Analytics reported Wednesday. The total again defied Wall Street expectations, as economists surveyed by Thomson Reuters were expecting payrolls to grow by 195,000. Growth actually decelerated slightly, as January posted an upwardly revised 244,000 from the initially reported 234,000. February marked the fourth month in a row that private payrolls hit 200,000 or better. "The job market is red hot and threatens to overheat," Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody´s, said in a statement. "With government spending increases and tax cuts, growth is set

Hillary Clinton sprained her hand during her visit to India, after taking a nasty spill on the stairs while out touring a palace on Monday. It is not yet clear if the hand injury was a direct result of Monday´s incident in which she fell not once but twice on the stairs and was pictured using her hand to brace her fall. As a result of her injury she was forced to cancel a handful of visits. Doctors attended to the former presidential candidate at Umaid Bhawan Palace where she is staying. The team of doctors from a private hospital

Hillary Clinton isn’t ready to let go of her election loss to President Trump. Clinton is in Mumbai, India, at the India Today Conclave, a “a meeting point for the best minds from India and around the world to map the geopolitical and economic future of the country.” But instead of keeping her focus on the complex and numerous problems facing India, Clinton took aim Monday at Americans who voted for Trump. Her patronizing and condescending words targeted voters in states that twice voted for Obama, and show she still doesn’t understand why Americans didn’t vote for her. Clinton compared herself

Hillary Clinton on Saturday partly blamed her 2016 presidential loss on white women and said that they voted for Donald Trump because their husbands told them to vote that way. Clinton spoke at the India Today Conclave in Mumbai, India over the weekend, where a journalist introduced her as the "woman who should have been the president of the United States of America." The event´s host, India Today Editor Aroon Purie, asked Clinton how 52 percent of white women could vote for Trump after the "Access Hollywood" tape was released in the final weeks of the campaign, which featured Clinton

On Monday night, a dog died in a plane after a United Airlines flight attendant forced the dog into an overhead bin. Maggie Gremminger, a passenger on a flight from Houston to New York’s LaGuardia Airport, uploaded a photo of the dog’s owners on Twitter. “I want to help this woman and her daughter. They lost their dog because of an @united flight attendant. My heart is broken,” reads the image caption. The Points Guy reports that during their flight, an attendant insisted that the woman put her dog, which was held in a TSA-approved pet carrier, in an overhead bin for

A candid photo of former Vice President Joe Biden has been shared more than 100,000 times as the former running mate of President Obama considers his own presidential run. The photo was taken by Paul Equale, who posted it on Facebook on Friday afternoon. The photo is tagged at an AMC movie theater in the Georgetown nieghborhood of Washington, D.C. "Joe Biden took his granddaughter to the movies in Georgetown last night," Equale wrote. "On his way out he stopped to speak w/ a homeless man. A bystander took this candid shot. Character is about what you do when no

Hillary Clinton reportedly tripped down a flight of stairs twice in India Monday, requiring the help of two aides to make it down , according to a video obtained by the American Mirror. Clinton is in the country to participate in the India Today Conclave, where she claimed President Donald Trump only won the election because he go the support of people she famously called “deplorables.” Clinton was attempting to walk down a flight of stairs without a railing when she nearly went down, twice.

The State Department said that Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was informed of his own firing by President Donald Trump´s Tuesday morning tweet announcing the news. The secretary said that he was "unaware of the reason" for his firing, which he said he did not discuss with President Donald Trump before Trump announced his ouster on Tuesday morning. "The Secretary had every intention of staying because of the critical progress made in national security," Under-Secretary of State Steve Goldstein said in a statement. "The Secretary did not speak to the President and is unaware of the reason, but he is

Rigid sexual orientations have defined the preference of men and women for decades; however, a new study is attempting to do away with strict definitions of sexuality. The study, published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, argues that there’s no such thing as a “straight” man or woman. Rather, people operate on a spectrum. Researchers showed men and women different kinds of pornographic material. Rather than relying on self-reporting, the study looked at physiological responses to the sexual material. Namely pupil dilation, which is a sign of sexual arousal. The study found that women’s eyes dilated when they viewed a man and

Excuses: While traveling in India over the weekend, Hillary Clinton was still trying to fix blame for her election loss 16 months ago. That is, fix blame somewhere other than her own dismal campaign. But every time she does so, she manages to expose just why it is that she did lose. While in India, Clinton blamed married women for not being able to stand up to their husbands and vote correctly. "We don´t do well with married, white women," she said, because of "ongoing pressure to vote the way that your husband, your boss, your son, whoever, believes you should." Then she

President Trump´s new pick to lead the CIA previously ran a secret prison, where human rights groups say she oversaw the torture of detainees. Trump said Deputy Director Gina Haspel would replace incumbent Mike Pompeo, who the President tapped to be his new Secretary of State on Tuesday after axing Rex Tillerson. She´ll be the first woman to head the clandestine agency if the Senate confirms her nomination. The nomination is expected to ruffle feathers, however, given her past assignments. Haspel oversaw one of the CIA´s first so-called "black sites" - or secret overseas prisons - in Thailand, where detainees

The family of Democratic National Committee staffer Seth Rich, who was killed in 2016, has filed a lawsuit against Fox News, an investigative reporter and one of the network´s frequent guests over a story about Rich and allegations that he was involved in a conspiracy, according to the lawsuit. Rich was shot and killed in Washington, D.C., in July 2016. Police said he was shot several times in the back and later died at a local hospital. Rich was 27 years old and worked as a voter-expansion data director for the DNC at the time. The May 16, 2017, Fox News article,

Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., is demanding President Trump’s CIA director nominee, Gina Haspel, clarify her position on torture because she participated in “one of the darkest chapters in American history.” Haspel, who has been with the CIA since 1985, has come under fire for her involvement concerning waterboarding and other interrogation methods that detainees at a covert CIA prison in Thailand were subjected to in 2002. “The torture of detainees in U.S. custody during the last decade was one of the darkest chapters in American history,” McCain, who was tortured during the Vietnam War, said in a statement Tuesday. “Ms. Haspel needs